About Meridian
Built by operators, for operators
Meridian Contracting Group is a back-office and agency-services firm in Austin, TX. We do exactly one thing: run the unglamorous machinery — reconciliation, contracting, licensing, CRM, and compliance — that decides whether an insurance agency scales or stalls.
Meet the founder
Marcus Ellery
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR · AUSTIN, TX
- Experience11+ years in IMO and agency operations
- ReconciliationCommission reconciliation across 30+ carriers
- ContractingBuilt contracting ops for 500+ producers
- StandardsConfidential, audit-ready back-office by design
I spent eleven years running operations inside a fast-growing IMO, and I watched the same thing sink good agencies again and again: the selling worked, but the machinery behind it didn't. Commissions went uncollected, new agents waited weeks to get contracted, and the owner became the bottleneck for everything. I started Meridian to be the back-office those agencies never had the time to build.
We do exactly one thing — run the unglamorous operations that decide whether an agency scales or stalls. Commission reconciliation down to the policy, contracting and licensing as a dedicated function, a CRM that's actually configured and maintained, and the compliance records that keep every producer writing. Your leaders get their time back; your producers stay selling.
If you're spending your nights in commission spreadsheets or personally contracting every new hire, that's the work I'd take off your plate. Let's map your operation and show you exactly where the dollars and the hours are leaking.
Why the back-office matters
The agency machinery, by the numbers
The honest comparison
DIY back-office vs Meridian services
Running it yourself works until you scale. Then the admin becomes the ceiling.
| What matters | DIY / in-house | Meridian back-office |
|---|---|---|
| Commission reconciliation | Spreadsheets, best effort | Line-by-line to every policy |
| Contracting speed | Owner does it between sales | Dedicated ops, days not weeks |
| Licensing & E&O | Manual, easy to miss | Tracked and alerted |
| CRM data quality | Drifts and rots | Configured and maintained |
| Leadership time | Buried in admin | Freed to recruit and sell |
Next step
Stop being your agency's bottleneck.
Hand off reconciliation, contracting, licensing, CRM, and compliance to a team that does only this — and get back to recruiting and selling. Book a walkthrough at no cost.